August 15, 1937

Hemingway Off To Spain

rnest Hemingway, author, sailed for Spain yesterday on the French liner Champlain. He
reiterated his denial that Max Eastman had knocked him down last Wednesday in the
offices of the editor of Scribner's.

Mr. Hemingway said both he and Eastman had promised to say nothing of the scuffle and
that Eastman had violated the agreement by releasing his version in the newspapers
Friday.

Mr. Hemingway then drew from his pocket a thin volume of essays by Eastman which
included "Bull in the Afternoon" and opened it to the passage to which he had objected.
In the center of the page was a black smudge which Mr. Hemingway said was "Eastman's
noseprint where I slapped him in the face."